Professor John McCanny has been a driving force in Northern Ireland’s technology sector for some time. He established himself as a leading authority on signal processing and created a couple of companies based on his research. Both Amphion and Audio Processing Technology were snapped up by multinationals.
He was also one of the driving forces behind the establishment of the Northern Ireland Science Park on the old Harland and Wolf shipyard in Belfast. He set up the Institute for Electronics, Communications and Information Technology – ECIT – as the lead tenant for the Science Park, which now houses more than 140 companies with some 2400 employees.
And a further development is CSIT, the Centre for Secure Information Technology, which is the UK’s national Innovation and Knowledge Centre for cyber security.
And Prof McCanny was recently awarded a Regius Professorship – Northern Ireland’s first – in recognition of the quality of his research.
